Technicians at iFixit have dissected the device from front to back, explaining its construction and already identifying specific parts.
Opening the casing is a “little bit tricky,” the company says. The black trim at the back of the phone is a plate that both creates a clear signal and detaches cleanly from the rest of the case. Completely removing the back panel, however, requires disconnecting the headphone jack’s cable.
Inside, the battery is said to be “huge” relative to the size of the phone, and is a 3.7-volt lithium-ion polymer battery. The pack is soldered to the phone’s logic board but is removable. Rear panels hold both the SIM card slot and the headphone connector. There is very little at the front of the logic board: the screen, speaker, and touch sensor connectors are the only real protrusions.
The logic board is also currently a source of mystery. It splits into two sections, but the largest portion — which contains the flash memory, processor, and other chips — is currently difficult to view without damaging the board proper.
Construction as a whole is particularly tight. A full 16 screws, including 10 just along the edge alone, hold the phone’s components in place — “unlike many iPods,” the technicians say. An iPod nano, for reference, uses only three. Even the antenna wires are glued to the phone at strategic points despite the scarcity of room, indicating that the iPhone’s creator leaves very little to chance.
“One has to imagine that Apple was extra-paranoid about reliability on this phone,” iFixit says. “They’ve certainly learned their lessons from the iPod.”
from bestofyt
The debut of interactive crowd gaming in movie theaters. Captured opening weekend of Spider Man 3 in Los Angeles. Created by SS K in collaboration with Brand Experience Lab for msnbc.com.
Check out the Apple online store, it appears they may be “making room” for something because they are CLEARANCING inventory! If you were thinking about buying an iPod, now might be a good time. Current generation of iPod Nanos on top with a “Limited Time Special Price” of $129! Farther down the page, current generation of Video iPods discounted to $199!
Today the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation has passed S. 704, a bill that would make it a crime to spoof caller ID. Dubbed the “Truth in Caller ID Act of 2007,” the bill would outlaw causing “any caller identification service to transmit misleading or inaccurate caller identification information” via “any telecommunications service or IP-enabled voice service.” Law enforcement is exempted from the rule.
While we all probably wish this would outlaw caller-ID blocking (think “Private”), it won’t. The proposed legislation only targets misleading caller ID spoofing, such as pranking your buddy by sending along “Bush, G.H.W.” with your next VoIP call.
As you know the past year, I-hacked has been slower with updates than usual. I would like to welcome you to the “turning-point” back where i-hacked thrives again! What better way to celebrate our rebirth than with a brand-new server! Thats right, we have retired solder.i-hacked.com, and now I would like to introduce you to flux.i-hacked.com! (if you are reading this, you are using it)
Another way we are celebrating our return is by having a KICK-ASS party at Defcon15 this year. As an I-Hacked reader you will have VIP access to this party, and trust me you wont want to miss this one. You will notice we have been granted the use of a skybox on Friday Aug 3rd, and we are going to take full advantage of this. I will be posting details soon on how you can obtain VIP access to the party — so please watch for it. For now if you plan on coming to DC15 please post in the comments below.
We also have some BIG things planned for Defcon this year so please stay tuned!
In celebration of our 5 year anniversary, with over 2 million unique visits, xbins is proudly presenting the first xbins contest! As the center of all xbox homebrew, we still thrive today in providing developers support to contribute publically to this large scene. We must first give our most expressed thanks and appreciation to our sponsor http://www.modchipman.com who is providing the prizes for this competition.
Here’s how the contest is going to work:
Various ‘items’ are going to be randomly hidden on our FTP server. Inside these item’s will be a code. Once you find one of the item’s, you will enter the code inside(just open the file with notepad to get the code) into the code box with your email at the bottom of this page. Once that code is submitted, it will no longer be valid. One prize per person. The contest will begin at 3pm PST on Saturday June 30th, and will last for 3 hours. You will need to join our channel #xbins on Efnet, IRC in order to participate. You may learn how to do that here . I want to note that the channel will be left unmoderated so that people can actually talk in the channel…something not done in quite a few years
A San Diego-area man has been arrested and charged with 10 felonies relating to selling pirated games and modding consoles. Frederick Brown was taken into custody earlier this month after his home was raided by the San Diego Computer and Technology Crime High-Tech Response Unit (CATCH) and has since been freed after posting bail in the amount of $100,000.
In his home, Brown had over a thousand copies of pirated games as well as a large number of mod chips. Brown had allegedly built up a thriving business selling counterfeit games and installing mod chips, having advertised his services on Craigslist and other web sites. He allegedly sold pirated games from his Vista, CA, residence as well, including both discs and hard drives preloaded with games that he would install into customers’ Xboxes and Xbox 360s,Entertainment Software Association senior VP for intellectual property enforcement Ric Hirsch told Ars Technica.
“Some of our member companies had seen his listings on Craigslist,” Hirsch said. “We started to make some inquiries on our own last year and eventually through our investigations accumulated enough evidence to bring it to the attention of the CATCH team.”
June 26th, 2007, Chicago, IL- Neuros announced today that it’s releasing a beta version of a YouTube browser for its award-winning Neuros OSD. With this release, the device can now be used to easily browse and play the entire YouTube video collection on any TV, both standard and high definition. Functionality already in this release includes keyword searching and browsing by category and rating. Future releases will bring user interface improvements and added functionality such as sharing, subscriptions, and much more.
This application was made possible by Neuros worldwide community of open source developers. These developers work closely with Neuros internal team, and their contributions are quickly incorporated into the company’s releases. “Everybody wins with open sourceâ€, said Neuros software chief, Michael Gao. “Our users benefit because our products are continuously improving and have built-in obsolescence protection; our developers get their efforts recognized and included in official releases; and, of course, we get to provide a really cool product and user experience.â€
Neuros is providing this initial YouTube-enabled release in order to receive early feedback on usability and new feature requests. Such feedback is fundamental to the Neuros product development process and will guide and speed the launch and enhancement of this and other applications in the future. With the success of this release, Neuros is now planning even more frequent releases. “The amazing pace of change in Internet media is driven by usersâ€, said Neuros CEO Joe Born. “The only way for a device manufacturer to keep pace is to allow those same users to participate in development.â€
Though this release is perhaps its most exciting to date, “it’s just the beginningâ€, said Born. “We’ve got a number of user interface enhancements and fixes already under way that are making the OSD an increasing pleasure to use, and we also look forward to bringing an array of exciting connectivity tools to the Neuros OSD in the coming weeks and months.â€
TorrentSpy decides to not block US visitors and chooses to filter pirated content from its search results instead, something which ISOHunt plans to do as well.
It’s a sad day for those in the US who use TorrentSpy or ISOHunt, two of the world’s largest public trackers sites, to find movies, music, and more to download for it seems the party’s nearing an end.
It’s being reported today that TorrentSpy and ISOHunt plans to use a hash-based system called FileRights to automatically filter BitTorrent trackers that link to pirated content from its search results to help satisfy a suit brought against them by the MPAA for the illegal facilitation of copyrighted material.
FileRights will use file hashes provided by individual copyright owners of their content that will detect and remove any torrent trackers that link to unauthorized copies. Copyright owners sign up for an account with the system and then enter the hash values of their content into the system database. FileRights will then automatically remove any links to this content.
The site says it works as follows:
FileRights.com maintains a large database of copyrighted works managed by the content holders themselves. This database forms a master list of copyrighted materials that should be removed from BitTorrent sites. When a content holder uploads information about the works they have found on a bittorrent site FileRights then distributes this information to our website subscribers so that work can be removed (filtered) from their search results. The entire process is automated to minimize the effort required by both the content holder and website operator.
For this roundup, I have chosen two optical scanners and two active capacitance devices. The optical scanners work by taking an image of your fingerprint, creating a template, and comparing the template to your finger each time you try to log in. These are the types of scanners I’ll try to fool. Microsoft’s optical scanner does not encrypt your fingerprint images, which can be stolen by potential hackers: a fact that a man named Mikko Kiviharju pointed out in an essay (PDF) last year. Mikko proved that it was possible to steal your templates from the Microsoft Fingerprint reader to gain access to your PC, which is probably why Microsoft encourages that you use it for convenience only. The other optical scanner, the DigitalPersona, does encrypt your template data.
